A different kind of death? Barts NHS Trust v Dance and Battersbee

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dc.contributor.authorLyons , Barry
dc.contributor.authorDonnelly, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-19T15:12:42Z
dc.date.available2023-09-19T14:35:49Zen
dc.date.available2023-09-19T15:12:42Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-19
dc.date.updated2023-09-19T13:35:50Zen
dc.description.abstractThe case of Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old boy who suffered a catastrophic hypoxic brain injury, was the subject of several Family Division and Appeal Court hearings between April and August 2022. During the protracted legal process, appeals were made by the family to the Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). These were unsuccessful in achieving a stay on the withdrawal of life-sustaining interventions, whose continuance the Family Division of the High Court had found not to be in Archie’s best interests. This commentary focuses on two novel aspects of the proceedings: the Court of Appeal’s overturning of Arbuthnot J’s conclusion that Archie was brainstem dead, and the CRPD Committee’s intervention in response to the family’s appeal.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Version
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dc.identifier.citationLyons, B. and Donnelly, M. (2023) 'A different kind of death? Barts NHS Trust v Dance and Battersbee', Medical Law International, 23(2), pp. 159-173. doi: 10.1177/09685332231159363
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09685332231159363
dc.identifier.endpage173
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journaltitleMedical Law International
dc.identifier.startpage159
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15004
dc.identifier.volume23
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publishing
dc.rights© 2023, the Authors. Open Access. This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectBrainstem death
dc.subjectCRPD
dc.subjectBest interests
dc.titleA different kind of death? Barts NHS Trust v Dance and Battersbee
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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